Usa Quotes - Page 12

• The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

  Yuri Milner

  Wall, Important, United States

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• There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Environmental, Floating

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• Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  School, Math, Technology

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• It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Moon, Thinking, Challenges

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• Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

  B. B. King

  Beautiful, Country, America

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• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

  Earl Browder

  Growth, World, Transformation

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• The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ideas, Slave Owners, Perfect

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• One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

  Roger Wicker

  Business, America, Effort

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• We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  America, Giving, Phases

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• I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

  Tim DeKay

  Character, Thinking, Driven

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tim DeKay Talks White Collar Season 3 and Episode 3.12". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  Anne Stevenson

  Children, America, Mountain

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• This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

  Anatoly Karpov

  America, Citizens, Way

  "Interview with Anatoly Karpov "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov"". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

  Pitbull

  Country, Looks, Documentation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

  Roger Wicker

  Taken, Home, America

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• I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

  Augusten Burroughs

  America, Today, Months

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• The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.

  John Grant

  Country, Animal, Sharks

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• The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Decision, Doe

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Needs, Approval

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• America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Printed Word, America

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• America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

  James A. Michener

  America, Politics, Flaws

  James A. Michener (1970). “The Quality of Life”

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• This year, 1.7 million young people will be participating in Olympic and Paralympic sports in their communities-many of them for the very first time. And that is so important, because sometimes all it takes is that first lesson, or clinic, or class to get a child excited about a new sport. This summer, together with our children, we can support Team USA not just by cheering them on, but by striving to live up to the example they set.

  Michelle Obama

  Summer, Sports, Cheer

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• There is some good news for John McCain. According to the latest polls, which came out today, John McCain has started to open up a lead over Barack Obama. This is true. Yeah. The USA Today poll has McCain ahead by ten points. The 'CBS News' poll has the two tied. And the MSNBC poll says that Obama won the election last week.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, News, Today

  "56 days - Jake Tapper on what women want" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 09, 2008.

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• Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, 'Made in the USA!'

  Barack Obama

  Three, World, Proud

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• The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of the people in prison are black, mostly for soft crimes.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, People, Black

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